vital uncertainty
February 28th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker“When we are not sure, we are alive.”
~ Graham Greene
beautiful dissolution
February 27th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker“I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight towering above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment lost myself–actually lost my life. I was set free … dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm and the high dim-starred sky. … I belonged within a unity and joy to life itself.”
~ Eugene O’Neil
tangles
February 25th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker“Who can untangle the tangle of this world?”
~ Buddhagosa
the desire of grapes
February 24th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker“Grapes want to turn to wine.”
~ Jalalad-Din Rumi
we live in miracles
February 23rd, 2005 by DhammaSeeker“Life is misery and miraculous beauty. The word ‘miracle’ has been used too often and has lost its value. But we live in miracles. The thrushes in the park, the ducks drifting on the canals, the floating seagulls, but also the car on the highway, the mechanical digger in the polder and the large square apartment blocks. Whoever can take the time and the peace to observe is surprised and feels the void of his own being.”
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
